Hamel Husain Jokes His Career Went From Data Scientist to 'Data Analyst of Traces'
HamelHusain · x · 2026-10-22
ML engineer and AI Evals co-instructor Hamel Husain jokes about his career arc: Data Analyst (2003), Data Scientist (2010), ML Engineer (2016), and now 'Data Analyst of Traces' — poking fun at how LLM agent engineering work has devolved into reading and labeling agent traces, a sentiment resonating across the agent-building community.
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